Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inhume .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective placed in a grave
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Examples
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They were inhumed below the floor of the cave; _inhumed_, and not lodged in catacombs.] [Footnote 34: Letter to Samuel M. Burnside, in Trans. and Coll.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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Supply-side 'Reaganomics' has been chiseled into a sacred precept, while the unmistakable role of deregulation in precipitating our recent financial crisis has been inhumed by the conservative discourse alongside amnesty, the Brady Bill, and disarmament.
Daniel Cluchey: Searching for Ronald Reagan Daniel Cluchey 2011
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Supply-side 'Reaganomics' has been chiseled into a sacred precept, while the unmistakable role of deregulation in precipitating our recent financial crisis has been inhumed by the conservative discourse alongside amnesty, the Brady Bill, and disarmament.
Daniel Cluchey: Searching for Ronald Reagan Daniel Cluchey 2011
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So, what's the going rate if, say, a noble lady would like her major rival in the city's annual flower arrangement competition inhumed in an eco-friendly manner?
D&D: trust your local assassin's guild! hradzka 2010
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Other men have had similar dreams; it is therefore impossible to deny that the dead may return; but it is certain, at the same time, that these deceased, whether inhumed, reduced to ashes, or buried in the abyss of the sea, have not been able to reserve their bodies; it is, therefore, the soul which we have seen.
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His son-in-law Ali asserted that when the prophet was about to be inhumed, he was found in a situation not very common to the dead.
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The treasures are inhumed again in their respective holes: they are not ours.
A Changed Man 2006
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Nothing therefore could be done but to cut loose the fastenings that yet bound them to the frame they had so vainly put their trust in; and scraping a deep hole in the sand, the remains were thus inhumed together.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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Desperately he thrust the raw end against his inhumed right arm and was promptly rewarded with a truly terrible stink.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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Desperately he thrust the raw end against his inhumed right arm and was promptly rewarded with a truly terrible stink.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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